MICHELLE Beaded Necklace 14K Gold Silver Initial Charms Choose Yours

• V-O-T-E letters hand stamped on circular, hand-stamped sterling silver or 14K Gold (14/20)

charms/paillettes. You may request custom letters in the same design.

• Cable chain, jump rings, and lobster clasp in sterling silver or 14K Gold (14/20)

• Batik Bone beads (byproduct-found remains) in many abstract flags & literal designs; zig-zag, star

• Red-glass & White-glass “Green-heart” antique African beads

• African sand-cast beads

• Brass filigree beads from the Ivory Coast. These antiquities are made using authentic lost-wax

castings featured here in rare designs: antique "heart-to-heart", "sun", "tube-weave", "triangle-

leaf", & "bell charms".

• Bauxite beads in burnt umber from African

• Chevron & striped glass beads in red, blue and white combined with navy

colored Maasai antique beads.

• Old Maasai African Turkana navy glass bead

• Brass antique bicone beads from Ethiopian

• Terracotta black bicone bead African-Mali

• Antique sterling silver tube beads & white metal beads from Ethiopia

• Copper tube beads from Ethiopia

• African recycled glass beads in varied shapes and colors

• Copper bicone heishi beads

• Brass spacers

• Vintage Yellow Kano beads from Hebron

• varied African, Indian and Tibetan beads

• Authenticated with a circular, hand-stamped sterling silver or 14K Gold 14/20 paillette

Alexandria Black are power pieces. Luxurious accessories & heirloom jewelry with versatility. I take inspiration from my body of work as well as studies & appreciation of art history, ethnology, color, textiles, fashion, couture, antiques, design, travel, architecture & music. Our designs are also heavily influenced by the ethos of nature & current events occurring here & in countries around the globe. This research, as also in life, is a continual journey. Each design is created & produced with astute attention to detail & filled with love. The end result is a modern, industrial sculptural & historical design with an asymmetric edge.

This necklace is carefully crafted with large, ornamental, incongruent-shaped pieces juxtaposed against small, geometric color-filled ones creating a beautiful balance as it’s placed about your décolletage.

Our components & artifacts are purchased almost exclusively through fair trade vendors & suppliers who liaise with them. They ethically source our stunning gemstones, crystals and ancient parapets. The artists are aboriginal nomadic tribes people & refugees from countries all over the world. I combine a splice of these traditional & societal antiquities from differing cultures with one another. I believe they are a diverse and beautiful amalgamation of design that creates an opening for energetic balance.

Precious stone designs are accompanied by an email with an identifying list containing the scientific, & historical details, as well as the rumored energetic healing qualities contained within all of the gems & hand-crafted beads in your piece.

Unique gift packaging! Most accessory and jewelry items are shipped securely inside our signature, keepsake storage satchel that is made with inimitable, repurposed materials. The current is an amalgamation of antique designer drawings, antique Indian sari, repurposed past season interior design fabric swatch books & colorful transparent lighting gels. This satchel will help protect your bbb design from damaging heat and light.

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One of my favorite things to do is to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC with my amazing son. He now has a love and fondness for the museum experience that is growing close to his mom's.

. . . thank you for letting me share myself with you! Wander, sparkle, and shine!

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